The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) put out a call recently for businesses to turn out emergency medical supplies, and some 1,700 locally-based companies have already responded.

NYCEDC’s ongoing enlistment of businesses to source and/or manufacture face shields, ventilators and other products occurs as the citywide total of COVID-19 cases exceeds that of all but six countries.

In its Twitter feed, NYCEDC cites examples of the results. “NYC-based businesses like Bednark Studios, Adafruit and MakerspaceNYC have already produced 127,000 face shields for NYC healthcare workers,” NYCEDC tweeted.